Category: Baby
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Happy families
Facebook can be very useful sometimes. Life changing announcements are as simple as a quick notification which is what I did with my pregnancy – I posted the baby scan and then everyone who wanted to ‘liked’ and commented. Well, that baby’s father is now part of our family and has moved in to live […]
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Coffee #0003
Percolated coffee with condensed milk. This is breakfast after the sixth night in a row with not much sleep. I’m reading Gone Girl and writing a book review which I won’t talk about yet. My dad is in the hotel across the street and my sister is somewhere off Whiteladies Road. Mersina had porridge for […]
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Sticker Fun Holiday from Top That Publishing (and the Froobles)
I received these books for review after responding to a tweet. I didn’t know the publishers until then. I am already a bit biased pro- Top That Publishing because these books arrived just two days before I was set to travel to Devon with a 2-and-a-quarter old toddler. Look at them: They are perfect toddler […]
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How being a single mother is just being a mother
“I love, more than anything, that I don’t have to take anyone else’s feelings or opinions into consideration when I do something… It’s just me and Jack against the world!” http://www.mothering.com/community/t/219427/why-i-love-being-a-single-mother/420 Here’s something I wrote recently during an argument: “Your membership of this family is not unconditional. I’m sorry if I made you think it […]
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A letter to Mersina, 23 January 2013
I’ve had the strangest worry today that something would happen to me and Mersina wouldn’t have any memory of me. Before the day was over I wanted her to have something that she could keep – some sentiment from me. I’ve never particularly liked those letters that mums write to their children but this was […]